Sex education in schools
Woman's Hour
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The Secret of Sex Education
Clara Page complained about her child's sex education lesson. The school contacted a DFE approved provider to teach a single PSHE lesson on the issue of consent over 18 months ago. They say they make available all curriculum plans on their website. Dr Sophie Kinghill, an academic at Birmingham University, joins us now. She says there is so much in terms of relationships in sex education that we need to consider first before we even think about what we're going to teach in schools. We don't talk about sex in wider society like we talk about the weather - it isn't there. It's the social taboo which also makes it an ideal political porn.
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